Well, it's been a little while since I posted anything. I guess I have put it off because posting pictures on this thing is so not user-friendly and usually Ava is in my hair all day which makes taking the time to do it really hard. She is mobile now and nothing withing reach is safe. She is pulling herself up to standing and cruising the couches. She goes into the kitchen and pulls herself up on everything in view! I also have to watch her carefully because she goes into the pantry and eats the cat food. So gross. She still hollers when I leave the room though even though now she can follow me. Her separation anxiety is really bad. I couldn't even teach at church today without holding her the whole time.

Ava has been a little sick this month. She had a fever (101-103.3) for a couple of days going down during the day. It didn't seem right so I took her to the doctor and it turned out that the NP thought she had a UTI. After culturing the throat swab she determined that she had a strep infection and that caused a rash to break out on her for a few hours. She might also have a UTI but I hope not. We're waiting to hear back on that one.

I have been feeling kind of lost lately. I miss my family and have been having a hard time making friends here. I have felt like I'm missing my purpose. I'm trying really hard to do the right thing.

We have been making some tough decisions lately that I can't really go into details about right now, but suffice it to say that hopefully some big changes are on the way.

So, I'm not going to promise to update the blog more often because I think I'm going to move back to writing in a real journal instead and updating this a couple of times a month, but I only have a couple of people who look at it so I guess it's ok. I know that would be more important for Ava later down the line to have a tangible record of her life and what has been important to me.